Jackson tried to block the sale, but the defendants ended up buying the Estate’s right, title and interest in the Subject Property. To collect on the debt, the company found a storage facility with Jackson family memorabilia and sought to authorize a bankruptcy sale including photographs and audio recordings found in the storage facility (the “Subject Property”). In the late nineties, Michael Jackson’s parents and two of his brothers owed money to a company owned by one of the defendants. The Jacksons have been blessed with many talents, but financial management is not one of them. The court lowered the boom on August 10th, granting summary judgment in favor of the plaintiffs for a long list of claims including copyright infringement, false designation of origin, misappropriation of likeness, cybersquatting, and so on. Mann, where the defendants set up a pay-for-access website relating to the late Michael Jackson. This leads to poorly designed pay-for-access websites with risqué names like “ .”Ī district court in California heard one of these storage locker disputes in Branca v. But sometimes, these buyers get a little overzealous–they convince themselves that their interest in the tangible property gives them an interest in some of the celebrity’s underlying intellectual property rights. When a celebrity goes bankrupt or forgets to pay a bill for his/her physical-space storage locker, opportunists may swoop in and purchase the goods so they can try and turn a profit reselling them.
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